Walking Tours

Our Walking Tours

Boston By Foot tours offer opportunities for visitors and locals to explore Boston’s cityscape and discover its history with a passionate and knowledgeable guide. Core tours are offered on a daily and weekly basis during the April-November tour season, while others are offered monthly or quarterly. All tours are available upon request as a private tour at any time.

View tours by frequency, topic or by schedule by accessing our calendar. Each tour page contains detailed information about each of our offerings. We look forward to sharing our love of Boston with you!

PLEASE NOTE: Registration for all public walking tours closes one hour before tour start time.

Architecture, Art & Infrastructure

Beacon Hill Cobblestone Street with Brick Homes

Beacon Hill

Walk past the stunning Federal and Greek Revival row homes along Beacon Hill's charming streets

tour duration90 minutes

tour distance0.93 mile

likely uneven surfaces and significant inclines

Our Walking Tours

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Walk past the stunning Federal and Greek Revival row homes along Beacon Hill's charming streets

Discover a trove of unknown and underappreciated works of art

Explore Boston’s Back Bay, home to one of the United States’ richest collections of art and architecture

Explore Boston's rebirth after the Great Fire of 1872, a more costly disaster than the Chicago Fire the year before

Explore two waterfront neighborhoods with the same roots but a completely different look and feel

Discover how Boston’s urban landscape has changed as you uncover the clues left behind

A visionary concept in urban planning, Rowes Wharf remains at the center of 21st century Boston

Experience the colorful history of theater in Boston!

Visit one of Boston’s most vibrant neighborhoods, and one of the few surviving Chinatowns on the East Coast

Learn how East Boston began as a planned community that became today's vibrant and diverse neighborhood

Discover what was once the hub of New England’s leather and shoe industries at the turn of the 20th century

Join Boston By Foot and the South End Historical Society for the ultimate “Outside-In” South End Tour package

Hear tales of misery, misfortune and murder - all based on true historic events!

Explore Boston’s oldest neighborhood and discover the charm of this unique, compact city space

Learn why Boston's Back Bay is considered a marvel of 19th Century engineering

Explore 12,000 years of human activity on Shawmut Peninsula, the lands we now call Boston

Discover stories of Boston’s Black writers who were laser-focused on the great topic of the era - slavery

Join us to discover the many lives of Boston Common and its people

Travel in the footsteps of Boston’s 19th and 20th century gay and lesbian friends

Explore Boston's burying grounds and learn about the customs surrounding death in Puritan New England

Journey to Victorian Boston and see where writers and poets including Emerson, Alcott and Thoreau gathered

Learn where Boston’s Jewish West End residents worked, lived and worshipped - including The Vilna Shul

See Alcott’s Boston homes and hear the stories that inspired the beloved author of Little Women

Walk the streets of Beacon Hill, where many notable women artists, abolitionists and authors lived and worked

Beacon Hill Social History Series

Bostonians Fight for Change Series

Explore Massachusetts' long and complex history of slavery

Bostonians Fight for Change Series

This child's-eye view of the Freedom Trail is specially designed for young walkers (ages 6-12)

Relive a young boy's adventures in Colonial Boston based on the prize-winning, coming-of-age novel

This child's-eye view of Boston's North End is specially designed for young walkers (ages 6-12)

The perfect introduction to Boston’s Revolutionary history

Ideal for history lovers and those interested in our nation’s Revolutionary past.

Follow the words and history of the Adams Family over four generations

Celebrate the life of Boston-born Benjamin Franklin by visiting his homes and haunts in Colonial Boston

Hear the stories of Bostonians who remained loyal to the British crown

Boston 1789

Explore the life and influence of patriot Samuel Adams

Our special annual 3-hour July 4th event!

For more than 30 years, this tour has been part of any great Halloween celebration in Boston.

New for 2025! This child's-eye view of Boston's Back Bay is specially designed for young walkers (ages 8-12)

New for 2025! Explore both the inside and outside of Boston's historic City Hall